But Pre-Christian Armenia, while somewhat interesting as a political "spoiler" power historically between the Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman power struggle in the days of Tigranes the great, is not it's most interesting era. It's Christian era has the pathos of a civilization in a way similar to Ethiopia during the bulk of it's recorded history. Both adopted Christianity before the rise of Constantine in the Roman Empire, and both were stalwart strongholds of Christiandom that held out constant sieges by Islamic forces for centuries. But it seems to be, on these CivVI forums, a strong tendency to want as many civ's as possible who have appearances in history as both a pagan/polytheist and a monotheist (Christian or Islamic) viewpoints, to overrepresent the old pagan/polytheist ones, even if it requires a lot of stretching, less interesting eras or leaders, or relying on much weaker historical information, and then stack all of their civ abilities and unique improvements so any conversion to a monotheist way of thinking would make any sense, because they'd lose all they're benefits (for those who still RP their civ's, at least, and don't just PLAY). In fact, the bias in a lot of media that paganism/polytheism is preferable in portrayal, and even empathy, to monotheism, is a bit disturbing. Does no one conceptualize that, even though a LOT of grief, death, suffering, and oppression has come from a large chunk of global civilization today being based on Abrahamic Monotheist ideals and principles, that, if the pagans and polytheists had come out ahead in the "culture war," the world would almost certainly be far worse for inequity, injustice, oppression, tyranny, intolerance, unnecessary bloodshed, and theocratic impunity, and science and technology would likely be several centuries behind globally today.
